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Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Former Tory MPs joining Reform is seen as good thing by Reform voters – politicalbetting.com
Some debate about whether former Tory MPs joining Reform is good for Reform or not. While voters as a whole are slightly more likely to say it’s a bad thing, those planning on voting Reform overwhelmingly think it is a good thing. Lib Dems & Tories most likely to think it’s bad.
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It needs to build a broad consensus rather than just take a chunk of Tory votes.
Many people in areas like mine would vote for them but never vote Tory.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo
Panorama tonight. A ransomware attack destroyed KNP (Knights of Old lorries) and 700 jobs were lost.
Stay safe, everyone, appears to be the advice of the NCSC.
(This is not a parable for dicking around with the layout of PB.)
After the landslide they could even rename the Party to the Conservative Party.
Just the owners spinning off multiple brands to increase market share, Reform is Daz...
The ones I really like seeing though are "BJ Waters". I went to school with the owner's son, and they were based in a really inconvenient place in the Peak District that I knew quite well.
Computer hacking should be treated much more seriously by the courts than it is - though like people smuggling, it is an international business and consequently incredibly difficult to tackle.
A while back I officially ran out of password ideas.
Besides, even a lot of Conservatives like Farage.
(serious comment here, always use a combination of words or a password generator with password management software (Apple's password, bitwarden, lastpass even the one built into chrome or similar).
* Admittedly a lot of them are attributable to the North Korean army which thinks it is in a state of war with everybody
The competent and the utterly negligent are treated equally.
The other problem is that this is international crime and state-sponsored.
UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption
Officials fear technology deals with Washington could be impeded after Trump administration weighs in
Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including vice-president JD Vance.
“This is something that the vice-president is very annoyed about and which needs to be resolved,” said an official in the UK’s technology department. “The Home Office is basically going to have to back down.”
Both officials said the UK decision to force Apple to break its end-to-end encryption — which has been raised multiple times by top officials in Donald Trump’s administration — could impede technology agreements with the US.
“One of the challenges for the tech partnerships we’re working on is the encryption issue,” the first official said. “It’s a big red line in the US — they don’t want us messing with their tech companies.”
Starmer’s government has set out a trade strategy that focuses on digital goals such as AI and data partnerships.
The other senior government official added that the Home Office had handled the issue of Apple encryption very badly and now had “its back against the wall”, adding: “It’s a problem of the Home Office’s own making, and they’re working on a way around it now”.
https://www.ft.com/content/3a3e6dbc-591d-4087-9ad3-11af04f0176f
You'd still apply some sort of excess, which is how you deal with moral hazard in another schemes.
About a decade ago it was decided that might be an issue if my account was comprised/hacked that people could see everything with a single login.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/15109401/paul-gascoigne-hospital-football/
England legend Paul Gascoigne rushed to intensive care unit
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/35930377/paul-gascoigne-hospital-football/
The Sun and Scottish Sun report Gazza was found collapsed at home but is now out of intensive care.
And we think our money is safe in banks.
I have to change my password every 6 months or so. Like most of the country this involves the increase of a single nominal from the last one. The idea this makes anything more secure is absurd.
Good morning, everybody.
Citigroup credited client’s account with $81tn before error spotted
US bank meant to send $280 but no funds were transferred despite ‘fat finger’ mistake
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/28/citigroup-credited-client-account-with-81tn-before-error-spotted
What prevents Chrome being hacked and all the passwords being taken?
Especially since the passwords sync across devices, so they must be going online?
Shocking
If someone gains access to your unlocked device, they can access all your passwords - sort of, as there are some extra checks done if you try to access the password management page.
As ever, it is security versus convenience: where going too inconvenient can actually harm security. I think GPM isn't at the sweetspot in that equation, but it isn't bad. But I don't have things like banking passwords on it (I don't have banking apps on my phone, either....)
You should also turn on 2FA for everything that offers you the opportunity.
Works for me.
So many are required nowadays, that it is near-impossible to memorise them, especially if they have to change, and so people tend to use the same passwords for many sites, or subtle variations thereon.
An alternative is writing them down. But that means you can only access them if you are where they are written down, and if someone gains access to the list, you are screwed (unless you somehow encrypt or obfuscate the list).
And so a compromise is password managers; which means you need to 'trust' the organisation running the manager, and that all your passwords might be exploitable if someone gains access to the manager.
For privileged accounts we have a PAM tool that rotates the passwords
I hope!
She won 100,000 last month
I don't know how she is going to spend it
I just can't conceive of the Ministry of Defence doing anything like this. They are more likely to design 1 hyper expensive and sophisticated drone that is years out of date before it gets deployed. I read recently that the drones on the front line in Ukraine are improving every 2-3 weeks. Its like the development of aircraft in WW1, and whoever has the latest version wins. This is a really serious problem.
With 2FA, knowing the password should not be enough, but yes, if there is a suspicion that the password has been compromised then it is changed
The Greens are playing a similar role for lefties. The Lib Dems are now driven by somewhat different dynamics.
So you would need both the person's phone number / sim card and access to other systems before the authenticator app started working on the new device.
It's about a year since I switched phones so I can't remember the steps required but it definitely was more than put in sim card, restore phone from backup and it all worked 100%.. It wasn't however that much more
Otherwise they can't remember it and get locked out after three attempts, necessitating long calls to customer services with lots more security questions- which they also can't always remember.
For example (and this is not mine) take a long poem like Tennyson’s Revenge, rank your systems alphabetically and use the first letter of each word in the corresponding line.
It means you just need to remember the poem…
Using a 2FA authenticator app running on your phone is not the same
Loving this Clacton tourist poster.
https://x.com/CockertonMark/status/1947018183157690772
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/20/essence-oleksandr-usyk-daniel-dubois-boxing-heavyweight-unification-title-fight-wembley
The common struggle for all of them, including Reform as they shall find out, and are even now finding out in local authorities is whether social democracy, the only show in town since 1945, is sustainable, and if not what rough beast would replace it.
From this, everything else follows.
One company I know of apparently has an IT head who *assumes* that passwords will sometime be hacked or stolen. Therefore the company's policy is to tie down the database and systems. If you don't need access to a system, you don't get it. Even then, you can only access certain parts of it. And you should not be able to do large data dumps without extra permissions on a case-by-case basis. It is apparently a PITA for the staff, but often that is because they are trying do things they shouldn't be.
And yes, he is well aware that he, and the couple of deputies, are holes in this because someone needs God rights.
But they also spend a lot of effort and money on resilience / disaster recovery. *If* something happens; like a ransomware attack, how can they preserve their data and get back up and running as quickly as possible, with as little disruption? This also covers things like fires.
However, all of this costs money, and requires a highly-skilled IT department that is willing to push back when a senior manager asks: "Of course I need to access this data I have no business seeing. Don't you know who I am ..."
With Independence dead in the water (drowned by the SNP itself) and deep upset about the state of the country, Reform think they have a great opportunity to steal from the nats as much as the Tories.
In the mean time, post-it notes under your mouse mat are best.
Not a political point, just a bit of amusing incompetence.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/17/ofqual-admits-massively-exaggerating-number-of-students-getting-exam-assistance?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social_img&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4vdATeXzaGF8u9MmfZuTZyuhrX2R4SBA5NESDYbWzyD563uyhTQ3uAAfSXuQ_aem_vmJwY4UMOIiQeQIwmkjArQ#Echobox=1752760244
Buy more shoes.
Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname.
what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP.
https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1947066599653232974?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Pointless anecdote: while troubleshooting a performance issue, I once had to alert a Whitehall department they were backing up information that could easily be re-uploaded from source, but not backing up live data.
Not just Covid either. I can think of several people who failed catastrophically at the DfE under Gove. They went on to other things - one became Chief of Ofsted and another became Chief of Staff to the PM (and a phone thief, and an amateur optician…)
This is a live discussion in our organisation
We spend a lot of money on backups and if you do it right that is one way to recover from ransomware attacks
And least privileged access is a regular topic, as is 'network segmentation'
I am chuckling ironically at the "highly-skilled IT department" as someone at corporate just decided the best way to keep the enterprise secure was to lay off a bunch of IT staff...
Humourless MP meets nepo-baby cartoonist.
Supermarket systems can be notoriously crappy anyway, with manual stock counts required to validate the crap being shown on the computer. So the staff at Co-op and M&S must have already had to stock check, so just do the same for the whole store.
Audit every store. Input into a big database. Audit each warehouse. Same. Get back up and running. Manual is slow, so it won't be slick. But you can operate like that - I worked for a company selling £150m of production to supermarkets and bizarrely they were still wholly operating on very large spreadsheets.